Wednesday, February 14, 2018

As a parent, you should be aware that there are certain signs of pre-homosexuality that are fairly easy to recognize. They usually show up early in a child's life, and they generally fall under the heading of what might be called "cross-gender behavior." There are five markers to watch for in determining whether a boy or girl is a likely candidate for "gender identity disorder:"

A recurring desire to be, or an insistence that he or she is, the opposite sex.

Penchant for cross-dressing.

A strong and persistent preference for cross-sexual roles in make-believe play, or persistent fantasies of being the other sex.

An intense desire to participate in stereotypical games and pastimes of the other sex.

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Actually this depends on your view of moral values.
Some people think that moral values are objectively valid, that is, they hold
regardless of what people say. Thus, if everyone in society says that people
over 65 should be killed, it is still wrong objectively to kill them. Some people
believe this because of a belief in God’s commandments. Others just think, like
atheist philosopher Erik Wielenberg, that moral statements are just objectively
true even without God. Others think that morals are determined by individuals
or cultures. What that means is if a culture decides, for example, that it is
obligatory for young girls to get female genital mutilation, then it is true
for that culture, and no one has the right to say that is wrong. Though,, that’s
not quite accurate, since if morals are relative to culture, and your culture
says you should condemn and be intolerant of other cultures, then you should be
intolerant of other cultures.

We could also ask, who is the state to tell a murderer that he has done
the wrong thing?

It is part of the idea of a human right that it exists
even when it is being violated. If someone is born a slave and dies a slave,
defenders of human rights will say that the slave nonetheless has the right to
liberty. What sense can be made of this idea? The best sense I can make of it
is that there is an objectively binding moral obligation on the part of
everyone to permit this person to be free, and that those who are enslaving him
are violating that. The idea of human rights seems to entail moral objectivity,
and on the view that there are no moral facts, it is hard to see what human
rights could mean.

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About Me

I am the author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, published by Inter-Varsity Press. I received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.